A bar owner in Maple Ridge, B.C., has acknowledged that one of his bouncers brawled with a patron who has since developed permanent brain damage.
Del Parent has permanent brain damage and is paralyzed along his entire right side after a fight at the Wolf Bar on June 13.
"My brother could talk up a storm and now he can't talk at all. He was extremely independent and very proud. That's not him any more," Andre Parent said of his 44-year-old brother.
According to the police and Parent's family, Parent entered Wolf Bar on Lougheed Highway at around 2 a.m. and shortly after a fight began.
CTV News reached the bar's owner, Chris Fairfax, by phone. He said many patrons were drinking that night because they were watching the UFC fight, and that Parent tried to order drinks after 2 a.m.
Fairfax said the bar wouldn't serve Parent and a bouncer kicked him out.
"They both went down onto the ground, and the guy that was causing the trouble and who's in the hospital now hit his head on the curb, and the doorman noticed there was blood," Fairfax said.
Fairfax admits there was a fight, but insists that the bar is not at fault.
"The police are there to help in situations like this and I wish they had come earlier," he said.
Parent was treated by paramedics and initially walked away from the incident. His brother found him unconscious a few days later.
"When the emergency crew brought him to the hospital, I was shown that the CT Scan showed serious injury to the brain. Surgery was needed immediately," he said.
Parent's family says he isn't a fighter, and they are asking anyone who knows anything to come forward.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Jon Woodward
